Andhra Pradesh Agricultural Lands (Prohibition Of Alienation) Act, 1972

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    "slug": "andhra-pradesh-agricultural-lands-prohibition-of-alienation-act-1972",
    "title": "Andhra Pradesh Agricultural Lands (Prohibition Of Alienation) Act, 1972",
    "short_title": "Andhra Pradesh Agricultural Lands (Prohibition Of Alienation) Act, 1972",
    "act_number": "(Act No. 13 of 1972)",
    "act_year": 1972,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Andhra Pradesh",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": "1972-07-31",
    "description": "Andhra Pradesh Agricultural Lands (Prohibition Of Alienation) Act, 1972",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement:.",
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Declaration as to giving effect to certain directive principles:.",
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            "sort_order": 1
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Definitions:.",
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            "content": "(a) \"dry land\" means land registered as dry, manavari, asmantari, baghat or garden land or special rate dry land, in the land revenue accounts of the Government or assessed as such, but excludes wet land;\n(b) \"holding\" means the entire land held by a person as owner;\n(c) \"land\" means land which is used or is capable of being used for purposes of agriculture including horticulture;\n(d) \"person\" includes an individual, undivided Hindu family, a trustee, a company, a society or an association of individuals whether incorporated or not;\n(e) \"specified limit\" means the extent of land specified in Section 4 as the specified limit;\n(f) \"trust\" includes a trust created for public purposes of a charitable or religious nature;\n(g) \"wet land\" means land registered as wet single crop wet or double crop wet or compounded double crop wet or special rate wet land, in the land revenue accounts of the Government or assessed as such, and includes:\n(i) any land included in the ayacut of any Government source of irrigation; and\n(ii) any land irrigated by water from any Government source of irrigation in any one fasli during the period of three faslies immediately preceding fasli 1381.",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Specified limits of wet and dry lands:.",
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            "content": "(a) in the case of wet land-4 hectares.\n(b) in the case of dry land-10 hectares.",
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            "sort_order": 3
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Prohibition of alienation of holding by certain persons:.",
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            "content": "(a) the expression 'family' shall mean an individual, his or her spouse and their minor children; and they shall be deemed to be members of such family;\n(b) where the individual is a divorced husband or a divorced wife who had not re-married, such individual together with the minor children in his or her custody shall be deemed to constitute a family and such minor children shall be deemed to be members of such family;\n(c) in calculating the holding of any person being an individual or any member of a family, the share of such individual or member in the lands held by an undivided Hindu family shall also be taken into account and for this purpose such share be deemed to be the extent of land which would be allotted to such individual or member had there been a partition of the lands held by the undivided Hindu family.",
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            "sort_order": 4
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Restrictions on registration of documents of Central Act 16 of 1908:.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) no document relating to alienation or partition of any land or the creation of a trust in respect of any land shall be registered by any registration officer appointed under the said Act, unless the person presenting the document furnishes a declaration by the transferor in the prescribed form which shall be subject to verification in the prescribed manner, that the holding of such transferor does not exceed the specified limit and in case where such transferor is a member of family that the holdings of all the members of the family of which the transferor is a member in the aggregate, do not exceed the specified limit; and\n(b) a document relating to alienation or partition of any land or the creation of any trust of any land registered on or after the commencement of this Act shall, for the purposes of Section 5, take effect and operate only from the time of such registration, notwithstanding that such a document has not been registered within this State.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Exemption:.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(ii) a corporation established by or under a Central, Provincial or State Act, which is controlled or managed by a State Government or the Central Government.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Power to make rules:.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Act to override other laws:.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Repeal of Andhra Pradesh Ordinance 1 of 1972:.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "AP198",
        "Act Number": "(Act No. 13 of 1972)",
        "Enactment Date": "31st July, 1972",
        "Act Year": "1972",
        "Short Title": "Andhra Pradesh Agricultural Lands (Prohibition Of Alienation) Act, 1972",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Andhra Pradesh"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:18"
}